Biden Administration Urges Supreme Court to Protect Access to Abortion Pill.

The Biden administration has filed an emergency application to the Supreme Court asking the justices to pause parts of an appeals court ruling that limited the availability of a common abortion pill, mifepristone. The application asked the court to allow the pill to remain widely available while the government pursues an appeal. The case has returned the Supreme Court to an issue it had said it was ceding to elected officials in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade. More than five million women have used mifepristone to terminate their pregnancies in the United States, and many studies have found it to be safe and effective.